River
Parsęta
139 km from source to mouth · Poland.
PolandFlows into Baltic Sea
In numbers
Length
139km
Average flow
39m³/s
Basin
3,151km²
Drop
99m
from 98 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
139 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSzczecinekat 98 m
- 69 kmMogilicatributary
- 70 kmBiałogard24,368 people
- 89 kmKarlino5,832 people
- 89 kmRadewtributary
- 136 kmKołobrzeg44,377 people
- 139 kmBaltic Seaat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Poland
At the mouth it carries 39 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 63 seconds. It drops from 98 m to -1 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,151 km², about the size of LU. 191,000 people live in it. Highest water: March; lowest: February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- KołobrzegLargest city on its banks · 44,377 people
- Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport (SZZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 79 km from the cityCar hire at SZZ airport (Szczecin)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water15 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Parsęta, month by month
Highest water: March
Lowest water: February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 23 m³/s in the lowest month to 70 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Parsęta: the basin in numbers
3,270 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 191,000people live in the basin
- 59/km²people per km²
- 91maverage altitude of the basin
- 656mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 7.8°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 0.6%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 31% Forest
- 40% Cropland
- 10% Pasture
- 2% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Parsęta: what you find on the way
- 14Weirs
- 1Waterfalls
- 9Boat rampsZjazd do rzeki, Zjazd na plażę and 7 more
- 2Ferry piersPrzystań Pasażerska
- 3MarinasBasen Solny Im. 100-Lecia Ligi Morskiej i Rzecznej, Marina Solna, Marina Solna Kołobrzeg
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Parsęta in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
4beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Beaches (4)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Płaza Kolobrzegkm 11418.6°C
- Sianożęty Plaża11 km away18.5°C
- Plaża w Ustroniu Morskim13 km away18.5°C
- Plaża Dżwirzyno10 km away18.6°C
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Polska Góra5.4 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Parsęta in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Radew, Mogilica, Liśnica, Perznica, Pokrzywnica
Nearby
Rivers nearby
GermanyWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2071851) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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